Variorum Collected Studies
About the Book Series
The first title in the Variorum Collected Studies series was published in 1970. Since then over 1000 titles have appeared in the series, and it has established a well-earned international reputation for the publication of key research across a whole range of subjects within the fields of history. The history of the medieval world remains central to the series, with Byzantine studies a particular speciality. Other major strands include Islamic studies and the histories of philosophy, science and medicine.
Each title in the Variorum Collected Studies series brings together for the first time a selection of articles by a leading authority on a particular subject. These studies are reprinted from a vast range of learned journals, Festschrifts and conference proceedings. They are an essential resource making available research that is scattered or inaccessible in all but the most specialized libraries.
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Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth Century
1st Edition
By Pauline Stafford
June 28, 2006
This collection of studies by Pauline Stafford brings together a series of essays on Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England. Virtually all focus on political life, and with the highest levels of English society: with the king, the royal family and the elites, though one hitherto unpublished essay ...
Studies in Scholasticism
1st Edition
By Marcia L. Colish
June 28, 2006
Spanning thirty years, the papers brought together in this volume reflect three of Professor Colish's interests as a historian of medieval scholastic thought. The first group of studies represent investigations that flowed into, and out of, the research on Peter Lombard (d. 1161) and his ...
Fire from Heaven: Studies in Syriac Theology and Liturgy
1st Edition
By Sebastian Brock
May 28, 2006
This fourth collection by Sebastian Brock focuses on three areas: the christology of the Church of the East, the distinctive phraseology of the invocations to the Holy Spirit in the Syriac liturgical tradition, and two important early Commentaries on the Liturgy. The inclusion of the Church of the ...
Islamic Visual Culture, 1100–1800: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume II
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
April 28, 2006
Islamic Visual Culture, 1100-1800 is the second in a set of four volumes of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the ...
Renaissance Education Between Religion and Politics
1st Edition
By Paul F. Grendler
April 28, 2006
Few eras took education so seriously or were so innovative in their approaches to schools and universities as the Renaissance. At the same time, religious and political concerns strongly influenced educational developments. This third volume of articles by Paul F. Grendler explores the close ...
Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World: The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis
1st Edition
By Francis A. Dutra
March 23, 2006
During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown. Membership in these military orders was highly prized as status symbols and because ...
Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England
1st Edition
By David M. Palliser
February 08, 2006
Professor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to ...
Philosophy, Theology and Mysticism in Medieval Islam: Texts and Studies on the Development and History of Kalam, Vol. I
1st Edition
Edited
By Dimitri Gutas, Richard M. Frank
December 23, 2005
The first volume of the collected major articles of Richard M. Frank, pioneering student of Islamic theology (kalam), contains fifteen essays. It includes his early studies, classic but inaccessible for many in their original publication, on the text and terminology of Graeco-Arabic translations (...
Jerusalem: Constructing the Study of Islamic Art, Volume IV
1st Edition
By Oleg Grabar
November 28, 2005
Jerusalem is the final volume in a set of four selections of studies on Islamic art by Oleg Grabar. Between them they bring together more than eighty articles, studies and essays, work spanning half a century by a master of the field. Each volume takes a particular section of the topic, the three ...
Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts
1st Edition
By Mark Vessey
August 28, 2005
By close engagement with both traditional and contemporary approaches to ancient Christian literature, Latin Christian Writers in Late Antiquity and their Texts seeks to delineate a historiographical problem, at the same time rendering patristics as part of the subject-matter of a new literary ...
Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France
1st Edition
By Stephen D. White
May 28, 2005
The essays in this volume discuss feuding and peacemaking in France during a period extending from the mid-10th to the early 12th century. They treat various aspects of so-called dispute-processing - a term coined by legal anthropologists to refer to the political processes and discursive practices...
Merchant Families, Banking and Money in Medieval Lucca
1st Edition
By Thomas W. Blomquist
May 27, 2005
This volume brings together a series of studies by Professor Blomquist on the evolution of banking in Lucca from the 12th and 13th centuries. They describe how the leading bankers operated, how they invested, and how they pursued their family interests. In particular, they trace the transformation ...